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Dragon Age: Origins |OT| Letting The Fade fade out of memory
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Sir Garbageman
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Edgeward said:
That's funny, it was the exact opposite for my party. I had
Justice and Sigrun
Oh see, I had
Valena, Oghren and Nathaniel. Val wanted to side with him because of his sister. Nathaniel wanted a peacful resolution, I think. And Oghren seemed okay with whatever so it seemed like the right choice at the time. The ending seems to reflect that as well, since he takes darkspawn into the caves and they never disturbed the lands again or a really long time. IIRC
There are some things what I don't like in Dragon Age.
Example why there are no day-night cycle. Even Baldur's Gate 1 have that.
NPC just stay and wait in one place. Game world feel so barren. I hoped that the darkspawn threat would be more dangerous and players actions would really affact the whole situation. Now there is no rush. Time only moves when plot-missions have been completed and even then it doesn't make a difference.
Example why there are no day-night cycle. Even Baldur's Gate 1 have that.
NPC just stay and wait in one place. Game world feel so barren. I hoped that the darkspawn threat would be more dangerous and players actions would really affact the whole situation. Now there is no rush. Time only moves when plot-missions have been completed and even then it doesn't make a difference.
WHAT THE FUCK
I've encontered a game-breaking bug. I can't find an entrance to Jarvia's hideout because
Has anybody encountered such BS?
I've encontered a game-breaking bug. I can't find an entrance to Jarvia's hideout because
nobody attacks me! I talked to the Alimair and Nadezda, still no luck. There were the band attacking on the first visit to the Dust town, but there was no dialogue. What the hell?
BattleMonkey
Member
verbatimo said:
Yea have to agree, also the conversations you have are very static which also happens in Mass Effect most of the time.
Generally everyone stands around in the world and during conversations people are very stiff and generally only move their forearms with occassional shrugs. Loghaine was one of the only interesting characters as he was often moving around during the conversations and not just standing stiff :lol
The menu system is one of the better ones in RPGs. The whole 'junk' and 'sell your junk' is great for organization and time sharing. The comparison function is also really handy.
Did the series of quests that bring you back into The Fade. It was decent overall.
Did the series of quests that bring you back into The Fade. It was decent overall.
I got to kill most of the circle mages! Yay! Plus I got that mother to kill her possessed son. Everyone was moping about wish we could have done more but I was pretty happy with the way it turned out. Impactful choices is what it's all about in a RPG.
Sir Garbageman
Member
Patryn said:
If you tell your party to hold, you can still issue them commands iirc. Just have to manually give orders to everyone.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Fakto said:
No, remember that guy that did it in 4 hours? Psh. You're not calling him a liar, are you?
Lucky Forward
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Is there any way to tell the monetary value of an item (weapons, armor) in your inventory without going to a merchant? It would make it a lot easier to decide which items to destroy when you are overloaded and far from a shop, like down in the Deep Roads.
HadesGigas
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DodgyGeezerFella
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Anyone else find (on the PC) the game starts getting insanely sluggish and choppy, and long-ass load times, after about 30 minutes of play ?
Looking around on forums, people seem to think the 1.03 patch brung a memory leak with it. Royal pain in the arse
Looking around on forums, people seem to think the 1.03 patch brung a memory leak with it. Royal pain in the arse
Ogs said:Anyone else find (on the PC) the game starts getting insanely sluggish and choppy, and long-ass load times, after about 30 minutes of play ?
Looking around on forums, people seem to think the 1.03 patch brung a memory leak with it. Royal pain in the arse
I'd been having that problem since day 1. =\
DodgyGeezerFella
Member
Looking at the task manager when the game starts getting heavily chugged, i notice the game uses 100% of my CPU. That cant be right can it ?
The game has problems with certain setups and your definitely not alone. My old AMD quad core would slow down every hour or so taking up to 15 seconds on load screens sometimes and almost 100 percent cpu usage but the game ran fine on my friends pentium 4. Bioware is busy with horse armour and can't help you with a patch.Ogs said:
Edit: you're*
DodgyGeezerFella
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freddy said:
On my first completion, when its doing all the loading at the end, i was literally waiting minutes before anything would happen (i even strangely saw a brief moment after
killing the archdemon, where my party had gone back down the stairs of the tower, and Alistair was saying "Weve really done it ?!", or something like that, then it loaded up into the movie, then the hall
Apparently theres another patch coming out, but with no mention of this chugathon
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
leng jai said:
Overall no version is good. The PC version is basicly unplayable because these damned patches keep breaking the game. I'm just looking forward to the 1.04 patch that will kill my PC and fry my motherboard. The PS3 version is kind of nice. While the framerate isn't good, it's not in the "bad" regions and still makes the game far more playable than "broken".
GullyJuice
Banned
kinoki said:
so what's the consensus? I just got the PS3 version but not too thrilled with the framerate. I'll have a new PC soon. thoughts?
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
kinoki said:
I have it for the PC. Never had a single problem, outside of the well-documented slow loading after a couple of hours of playtime.
GullyJuice said:
I dunno what that guy is talking about, I've had it on PC since release and it's been fine. Engine runs incredibly well, too. Both the console versions are bunk IMO not just because of graphical fidelity but because you lose the ability to zoom your view out. Giving multiple orders during pause is a hell of a lot better than "body swapping" in the console versions to give commands.
kai3345 said:
Oh, I totally agree. My first playthrough was as a Dalish, and afterwards I was wondering why they were pumping up the Origin thing so much when it seemed to matter is the first hour of the game.
Then I played human noble and saw that the other origins actually, you know, tie into the plot and affect the game for the entire stretch. That was reinforced when I played through as a city elf.
As someone who has played through the PS3 version and then played it on a ~3+ year old PC, the PC version shits all over the PS3 version. The game looks and runs better on my shitty Mac with an ATI X1600 than it ever did on the PS3, the PC version has a ton of mods the console versions will never have access to, and most importantly, the controls are so much better in the PC version than the console versions. The ability to zoom out at will and view the field isometrically and the use of hotkeys/skill bar instead of the shitty wheel makes the game much more enjoyable.GullyJuice said:
SuperSugar
Neo Member
Wallach said:
Mine too! I loved this story, and I love my beautiful dwarven princess/Gray Warden.
I was thinking about how much I would love BioWare to make the next Dragon Age game an open world thing, much like Red Dead Redemption. How great would that be? I feel like Dragon Age was missing a lot of exploration potential.
HadesGigas
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http://dragonage.bioware.com/addon/
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Available July 6, 2010.
$7
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Features:
Explore Leliana's dangerous past and why she joined the Chantry
Fully voiced cinematic experience brings the characters to life
Unlock a unique reward that transfers into your Awakening and Origins campaign
Leliana's Song
Available July 6, 2010.
$7
Assume the role of Leliana, a young bard involved in a criminal ring that deals in political secrets. Accompanying her mentor Marjolaine on a high-risk mission, Leliana soon finds herself entangled in a game of intrigue that she cannot escape with just her beauty, charm, or stealth. The only way out of this game is to kill or be killed.
Features:
Explore Leliana's dangerous past and why she joined the Chantry
Fully voiced cinematic experience brings the characters to life
Unlock a unique reward that transfers into your Awakening and Origins campaign
mikeybwright
Banned
HadesGigas said:
Sounds fun, really hoping for a Game of the Year edition.
Is this game fried on Steam or something? I tried booting it for the first time in months and it said I needed updated PhysX (Im using an ATI card but whatever) so I did that. Now it just wont boot at all. I get the loading circle for half a second and thats it.
I tried deleting the clientblob and that didnt do anything. I also download those C++ packages from Microsoft. Anything else I should try?
I tried deleting the clientblob and that didnt do anything. I also download those C++ packages from Microsoft. Anything else I should try?
HadesGigas
Member
Leliana's Song Q&A + trailer:
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/110/1101730p1.html
http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/77985.../dragonage_trl_lelianasong_62310.html?show=hi
I ilke how the trailer has a wrong release date.
Interesting you don't have 100% control over what Leliana says, she's more like Commander Shephard.
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/110/1101730p1.html
http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/77985.../dragonage_trl_lelianasong_62310.html?show=hi
I ilke how the trailer has a wrong release date.
Interesting you don't have 100% control over what Leliana says, she's more like Commander Shephard.
This game is D&D methadone. It's been good enough to keep going but it really makes me appreciate all that they did with Oblivion in terms of open world and immersive encounters.
I've just started the 'final battle' chapter , my character is Level 19. I've done maybe half of the side quests. Before embarking I went back to kill the High Dragon. I went looking for Flemeth but she ain't around her hut anymore. Were there any must-do side quests or other interesting things to do? Aside from the main quest line what were people's favorite or most useful sidequests?
I've just started the 'final battle' chapter , my character is Level 19. I've done maybe half of the side quests. Before embarking I went back to kill the High Dragon. I went looking for Flemeth but she ain't around her hut anymore. Were there any must-do side quests or other interesting things to do? Aside from the main quest line what were people's favorite or most useful sidequests?
MrCompletely
Member
So, I created a new character this weekend for the Human Noble origin. I made a black dude, and for some reason I thought the game generates family characters based on what you look like, but my family are still all pasty white people and I'm this badass looking black dude. It turned the Human Noble story into the funniest game since Day of the Tentacle.
I guess it was Fallout 3 that generates your fathers appearance based on the character you create.
I guess it was Fallout 3 that generates your fathers appearance based on the character you create.